That is, as the young people say, no shade. I like white people. Some of my best friends are white. The dominance of white academics on a “comprehensive” list is a function of the hive mind that like attracts like and then like crowd sources like and then like becomes archived as THE ones to like.

But my black self is on twitter, too. I can like, archive, crowd source with the best of them. It seems silly, perhaps. But this is how institutional knowledge becomes institutionalized. And how innocent social networks of like-minded people become lists that systematically exclude POC. But the internet and social media offers a great chance to disrupt some of that power-hoarding.

You can @tressiemcphd the twitter handle with hashtag #discipline and #minorityscholars. And, um, again not to throw shade but by #discipline I mean hashtag the person’s discipline (i.e. #economics, #sociology).